Jeremiah 19

(19:1-10) Another pot prophecy
Jeremiah smashes a pot in front of people to show what God's going to do to them.

(19:1) "Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the
ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests."

19:1Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the
ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

19:2
And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry
of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

(19:2) "And proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee."

19:3
And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants
of Jerusalem; Thus saith
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, the which
whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

19:4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place,
and have
burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers
have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the
blood of innocents;

(19:4-9)
For worshipping "other gods, whom
neither they nor their fathers have known," God will make parents eat their own
children, and friends each other. Then he'll feed whoever's left to the birds. This will make
everyone that passes by hiss with astonishment.
What the Bible says about cannibalism and
children

(19:4) "Because they have forsaken me .. and have burned incense in it unto other gods,
whom neither they nor their fathers have known."

(19:7) "I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives:
and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth."

(19:8) "I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss
because of all the plagues thereof."

(19:9) "I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and
they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend."

19:5
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire
for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither
came it into my mind:

19:6
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no
more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley
of slaughter.

19:7
And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to
fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek
their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of
the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

19:8And I will make this
city desolate, and an
hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because
of all the plagues thereof.

19:9And I will cause
them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and
they shall eat every one the flesh of his friendin the siege and
straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall
straiten them.

19:10Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with
thee,

(19:10) "Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with
thee."

19:11
And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I
break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that
cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there
be no place to bury.

(19:11-13) God will break those who worship other gods as though they were
made of clay, killing so many that there will not be enough room to bury them all.

(19:11) "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel,
that cannot be made whole again ... till there be no place to bury."

(19:13) "Because ... they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods."

19:12
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants
thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:

19:13
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall
be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose
roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured
out drink offerings unto other gods.

19:14
Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy;
and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all the people,

19:15Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon
this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against
it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my
words.

(19:15) "Thus saith the LORD ... I will bring upon
this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against
it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my
words."